Columbia Data Products was founded in 1976 and had the honor of producing the first clone of an IBM PC 5150 which it released in June 1982. That computer was the Columbia MPC (for Multi Personal Computer). The Digibarn has another Columbia system, which seems to be a luggable version of the MPC. Rumor has it Columbia ran afoul of IBM in its effort to market a competitor to the IBM PC, leading the new company Compaq to develop its clone of the IBM ROM BIOS using a legally watertight backward-engineering strategy (see our pages on the Compaq here). In between Columbia and Compaq came Eagle Computers Inc. with its Eagle PC (which is an interesting story in its own right).